For God's Honor and Our Good

For God’s honor and our good, we should bring every sin we become aware of to God in confession and repentance. 

But what if we forget one? Will God cast us away because there is a sin we’ve committed and never repented of? 

If we fail to ask his forgiveness for one of our sins, will that sin remain unforgiven? Will God hold it against us?

We confess our sins to honor God’s perfect holiness. 

We ask his forgiveness so we will have the comfort of having our peace with him restored. 

But God knew every sin we would ever sin when he chose us to be his own and committed himself to the task of redeeming us. When Jesus died for us on the cross, every one of our sins was still in the future—and he knew them all. 

Our Savior will never learn something about us that will surprise him. He will not discover that we have committed a sin he never thought we would commit. He will never break off his love for us.

We wouldn’t want anyone else knowing all the evil secrets of our hearts. 

But it is a huge comfort to know that my Savior knows me inside and out, good and evil, past and future. He’ll never find out anything about me that will change his love for me. I will never sin a sin his forgiveness will not cover. 

Excerpt From: Starr Meade. “Comforting Hearts, Teaching Minds.”